CODEC - Consortium for Distance Education from CALI

Welcome to CODEC! This site is the home of the Consortium for Distance Education from CALI. CODEC seeks to provide law schools with a forum for the exchange of ideas, practices, and more concerning legal distance education.

If you are the Associate Dean or other administrator with responsibility
for developing curriculum at your law school, we have a brief survey
about curriculum development that we would appreciate you taking a few
minutes to complete. The results from this survey will help CALI better
focus the efforts of CODEC. The survey is here.

This is a short and interesting article from a business school instructor on how his students 'taught' him some things about using wireless Internet access within the classroom. The generation of students in law schools today is way more web-savvy than the instructors teaching- which makes sense. They grew up with it always available, we are old dogs learning new tricks.

As you may have noticed, we've launched a new version of the CODEC website. The new site includes the information from the old site and provides the community with a host of new tools for discussing and learning about legal distance education (LDE).

The new site is powered by Moodle, an open source course/learning management system. Using Moodle allows us to offer courses about LDE on the ...

Available courses

Through a sequence of steps this tutorial endeavors to guide participants through the process of preparing a short presentation for online or disk delivery as part of a law course. As it proceeds participants will be encouraged to identify topics in courses they teach, plan, and ultimately produce short presentations on them for potential use with their students. The tutorial introduces the key hardware and software tools and provides basic instruction on using them. Begin the first part of the course at the Legal Information Institute website.